Re: Env vars under 2.0

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From: Steve Koren
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 1990 13:03

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> > You may request notification when a file changes.  DOS has a couple of
> > calls (StartNotify() and EndNotify()) through which you can arrange
> > to learn when a file changes.  For example, IPrefs waits on notification

> I like it!  Very nice enhancement, and sounds like a nice, simple implemen-

Cool!  I like it too.  Question: are these calls implemented by polling
or by some other method?  In other words, is there any overhead
incurred by having maybe 50 of them going on at the same time?
AmigaDos has been very good about that kind of thing in the past, so
I suspect polling is not used.

   - steve

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